2014/10/09
-Added PSD support (Linked weapons, ship changing, etc.)
-Added fighter manufacturing (Currently 1000 RUs for a Xenophobe Fighter, the PSD cheat menu has been repurposed for the other ships, but no RU cost for those yet)
-Added new driveEffects

mothership.xml now requires "PlayerShipDrones", "PSD_Dn01" and "120Dn01" - they should be available from the Succession modpack.

@StealthX

Very nice drive effects, have merged them and the new manuever stats into this version.

The current bitmask was custom made only to serve as a placeholder. Its flaws appear as jagginess at the bottom of the sprite at certain horizontal facings when the background is not black, e.g. when near a star. Perhaps we could improve that by rendering a blank white version of the mothership and using that as the bitmask.

Will be preparing your download, interested in joining onto the project?

Just finished adding Hanger Bay support, the mothership can now launch and retrieve ships. Added Scramble Fighters and Return to Mothership to the Domina Powers menu, since it's more accessible than a dockscreen.

The ship interior dockscreen map is still a mess though, can someone check the download and reconfigure it?

Also wrote some more ideas about the direction in the XML. Please add to them!

In testing I got a graphical bug which looks like the mothership has a different number of functional facings, than visual facings (so the sprite is either larger or smaller than the number of facings which the ship has)

Measuring ingame, it seems that there are 2/3 as many facings in the spritesheet as there are functional facings for the ship, I'm going to assume a 120 sprite / 180 functional, but I cannot find where in the .xml these setting are otherwise I'd fix them myself.

The game also crashes with the following error when in the map and rotating:

Program state: OnAnimate
Program state: painting map
Game state: in game

Would vote in favor of putting it up on Xelerus since forum feedback is a bit mediocre. I can't really do much this week since midterms on Wednesday and Friday so we'll see. Thanks for working on this TVR and picking up my slack (sorry for disappearing during holidays and not responding to your IRC ping >.< )